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Trump’s Twitter tantrum subterfuge continues

By Bob Franken TV Journalist

It’s early in his presidency, but already Donald Trump has faced one controversy after another.
None has been more perilous to him than the accusation that he was elected in large part due to the interference on his behalf by his comrade Vladimir Putin and Putin’s agents of the Russian government.
That one just won’t go away. When the blustering, battering and bullying don’t work and the media reports threaten to consume his administration in dangerous scandal, POTUS leaves his Plan B and falls back onto Plan T.
“T,” of course, stands for “Twitter,” and Donny can always be counted on to put out some tweets late at night that are so outrageous, they can only be designed as a distraction from another damaging crisis.
This is after a week that ended with still further destructive disclosures that his functionaries had seemingly inappropriate confidential contacts with Russian operatives, both during the campaign and during the transition, before he and his troopers rolled into the White House to begin their reign of errors.
The latest ruinous crisis involved conversations with the Russians conducted by Jeff Sessions—discussions Sessions had denied under oath. It was the talk of the town until TOTUS swung into action.
“TOTUS,” of course, stands for “Tweeter of the United States.” This time TOTUS—who was weekending in his Palm Beach, Fla., fortress—was up very late, flinging whatever he flings late at night, at his predecessor, Barack Obama.